This modern step of time may turn my phrase- br but now attend- see language as bequeathed. br What sweep of lines from Homer's waltzing days br shall partner me? Stride quick the speech received br and kick and om-pah life-for what's now said? br Slick greetings (ice!) . Each science calls us names. br Blue epithets accuse, while we're all read; br Lear's the rage. Our scripts' drag in stage-left games... br But with this dance, this dance that sways in me, br new loves may move to touch. Sensations sing. br But 'loves'? - steps slip in verbal sophistry- br There's never more of every just one thing. br Modern terms convey, mostly all polls said, br body of knowledge- -bound hard-cover- dead.